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The outcome of a national seminar to commemorate Goa’s liberation from Portuguese rule, this volume examines how the people of the state have shaped their post-colonial history and the socio-political and cultural contexts that have affected their contemporary history. It discusses the traumatic social changes that the society in Goa is witnessing with the years. In this context, it takes up aspects like the collective identity of the Goans expressed in ...
The specific themes covered in this volume are modernization and the victimization of the disadvantaged; nomadic pastoralism and tribal organization as separate from the state; the rise of chiefships or states in regions where it was pastoralism rather than agriculture that produced wealth, artisanal mobility and the kinds of crafts of agrarian settled regions in the past; the forms of incorporation of tribal society into feudal states; shifting cultivation and ...